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How to Build a Metadata Plan in Five Steps

AIIM

In addition to helping organize and classify content, Metadata enables good findability, can trigger workflow and transactional processes, reveals document usage patterns and history, and helps establish retention and disposition events. We've provided a blank table template in Figure 2 below. customer number vs. customer ID).

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Sergeant Dennis Fisher and Marine Corps Combat Photography in Vietnam

Unwritten Record

It’s not often that we have combat photographers visit to view their photographs that eventually became federal records. We’d make contact proof sheets and go over them to select the photos we thought worthy of retention. ” with an emphasis on names, ranks, units, and hometowns so that news releases could be sent to local papers.